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I chanced upon some belimbing in the market yesterday. Belimbing aka bilimbi is a very sour fruit, mostly used in Malay, Peranakan and Sri Lankan cuisine. I have made them into chutneys and pickles and added them to fish curry. l usually rub a bit of ...

For years, I have been using this recipe to make rendang. A Malay dish usually made of either beef or mutton, rendang usually takes about 2 hours or more to prepare. By the time the meat is tender, and the gravy thick enough to coat the meat, you ...

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Jaipur is colourful and has ancient temples and palaces. So much to see everywhere. For me, the Johari Bazaar is still the best place to see and feel the lifestyle of Jaipur. Women and men barter and sell their vegetables, spices, jaggery, household ...

Besides, the Golden Temple, one other aspect that attracts people to Amritsar is food! I found many interesting street food stalls around the Golden Temple and near the main market area. I tried delicious kulchas dripping with butter, the famous deep ...

The Golden Temple, also known as Sri Harmindar Sahib is one of the most spiritual place in India. This is also the holiest shrine in Sikhism. It is in Amritsar, Punjab. The Golden Temple is a small part of a huge complex known as the Harmandir ...

As part of the Rai Bahadur Rattan Chand Trust, Ranjit’s SVAASA also look after more than 200 cows at the Gaushala in Amritsar. The milk supplied by the cows here are sold to homes as a token charge. The money collected is used towards the cost of ...

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Saffron also has a long-standing reputation as an aphrodisiac. Almonds have powerful aphrodisiac and reproductive support qualities and make perfect excellent blood tonic! All these combined gives you a good Indian aphrodisiac as well as improve the quality of semen and breast milk.

If you are pressed for time and cannot make it to a spa, here is an anti-aging mask that can also be used as a scrub. Hydrating honey and nutritional anti-aging powerhouse of health sesame seeds, pair together for a truly age erasing wonder. Watch a video of how this scrub is made and applied: …

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The fruit or the pulp inside looks like lychee, but not as juicy or sweet. The flesh is thick like rambutan and is pale yellow in colour, translucent and chewy. The seed is almost double in size of longan’s. The seeds can be baked, roasted or boiled and eaten and taste like sour cream or sour cheese.

Caraway seeds have multiple health benefits, one being their quality of being very rich in dietary fibre. Just 100 g of caraway seeds can provide up to 38 g of fibre which is the daily recommended intake of fibre and thus caraway seeds can help to prevent constipation. Through binding together toxins in food, caraway seeds help to protect the colon membrane from cancers.

I love the smell of pandan leaves and any dishes that are flavoured with pandan leaves. Pandan leaves not only make your dishes fragrant but also the whole house when you cook with it. My mother would pick some pandan leaves from our backyard, just before she starts cooking. She would clean the leaves thoroughly…

Nutmeg is a spice that is obtained from the fruit of the nutmeg tree that is found on many Indonesian islands. The same fruit that is the source of nutmeg is also the source of the spice mace. Nutmeg is obtained from the seed of the fruit while the mace is the red aril…

The ginger root has knotty finger-like projections with a rough silverfish-brown outer surface. Ginger is firm in texture and its flesh can be yellow, white or red in colour. The older the ginger is, the thicker its skin. Ginger has always been known for its anti-inflammatory and anti-flatulent properties. Zingerone, a chemical compound present in…

White fungus is a type of fungi composed of many tightly clustered florets that are, as its name suggests, white in colour tinged with a pale shade of yellow. The florets of the fungus have a firm jelly-like texture and branch out from the hard yellow center at the core of the fungus. The health…

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I am known as 'Spice Queen' of Singapore. I don’t know when and how this title came to me but it has been like that since 2001!! It must have been the media who coined this name for me and I like it. I like it for a fact that the word “queen” is there and I can imagine my crown being made of spices and leaves. Read More…